Thiruvananthapuram: For the first time, CPM joined the country’s celebration by lifting the tricolor flag in front of the party office on independence day on Sunday.
The CPM Central Committee, who met in New Delhi earlier this month, asked for the rank of party and submitted to celebrate independence day as part of an effort to fight BJP Ultra-Nationalist politics.
CPM said that independence day must be celebrated in such a way that it would help expose ‘hollowness’ in the claim of right-wing troops, especially RSS and BJP.
CPM celebrations did not pass without inviting criticism from their political rivals.
KPCC President K Sudhakan said he was happy to record changes in the CPM mindset.
“The party who used to call August 15 like Apathu 15 (danger 15) has now begun to lift a national flag.
I am happy that CPM has recognized the heritage of the congress.
CPM is an organization that rejects Gandhiji.
They must show the courage to receive past mistakes,” he said.
CPM CPM Secretary A Vijayaraghavan, who lifted the flag close to the party red flag in front of the AKG Center here, said Sudhakaran’s criticism of CPM crashed into his ignorance of the struggle of Indian independence and the role played by the Communist movement in it.
According to him, India must think hard about whether the dream of freedom fighters has become a reality or not.
Head of State BJP K Surendran escaped from insult by a mustache when he pulled the end of the rope while lifting the flag in front of the BJP State Committee office here.
When the flag began to move up on a reverse position, he watched the mistake and fix it.
Meanwhile, CPM and CPI were attacked when they raised a national flag next to the party flag.
Chairman of the Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan in his independence message, the message said that it was time to ‘reclaim’ nationalism from communal fascist forces and divide.